Fair Opportunity and Responsibility

Auteur: Brink, David O. (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego)
Editeur: Oxford University Press
Brink analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. He argues that an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused, and that responsibility consists in agents having suitable cognitive and volitional capacities, and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities.

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Brink analyzes responsibility and its relations to desert, culpability, excuse, blame, and punishment. He argues that an agent is responsible for misconduct if and only if it is not excused, and that responsibility consists in agents having suitable cognitive and volitional capacities, and a fair opportunity to exercise these capacities.
ISBN / EAN 9780198859468
Auteur Brink, David O. (Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, Distinguished Professor of Philosophy, University of California, San Diego)
Editeur Oxford University Press